Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. You are the traveler and you are the destination. In experiencing the ecstasy of your own being, you have achieved the final goal.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incompara ble. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears. Each is unique and incomparable. You are just yourself: nobody has ever been like you, and nobody will ever be like you. And you need not be like anybody else, either. God creates only originals; he does not believe in carbon copies.
Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the Now-Here.
To be alone is the only real revolution. To accept that you are alone is the greatest transformation that can happen to you.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
If today were the last day of my life, Would I want to do what I’m about to do today? And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.